Published scoops - Activist Hero

Mohammad Rafigh is an Iranian Musician living in Tehran and also a computer engineering student. After discovering Bitcoin he became fascinated by it, and made his most recent album "Beyond Matter" available for Bitcoin.Rafigh wrote “Bitcoin is so interesting for me, I wish the culture of using digital money spreads all over the world, because it does not have any dependency on anything like politics.” Rafigh has begun translating Bitcoin software into Farsi

Amazing book being turned into an Amazing movie. A prophetic novel which chronicles a transition from a statist to voluntary society. Alongside Night is the story of the final economic collapse of the United States as seen through the eyes of 18-year-old Elliot Vreeland, searching for his missing Nobel-laureate-economist father, and the mysterious 18-year-old "Lorimer" whom Elliot meets in a black-market underground, whose own father might be the reason Elliot's father is missing.

We’ve all heard jury nullification… how about defendant nullification. In Livingston, Montana this week a judge just walked out of a courtroom while the court was in session while being heckled by an unruly crowd at the behest of the defendant, Joel Boniek. Once the judge was gone Boniek proclaimed himself in charge of the courtroom and dismissed his own case.

"The problem we have faced over the years has been that economic interventionists are swayed by envy, whereas social interventionists are swayed by intolerance of habits and lifestyles. The misunderstanding that tolerance is an endorsement of certain activities, motivates many to legislate moral standards which should only be set by individuals making their own choices. Both sides use force to deal with these misplaced emotions. Both are authoritarians. Neither endorses voluntarism. Both views ought to be rejected."

On October 22, 2012 the world lost Russell Means, one of my personal heroes. Russell was champion of the Lakota people, and prominent libertarian activist, combining what many assume are disparate causes in perfect harmony. His Lakota name, Wanbli Ohitika, means Brave Eagle and his life was a testament to that title.

The new documentary, "Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal," chronicles Abu-Jamal’s life and work as a journalist, writer and public intellectual, even as he spent some 30 years on death row in Pennsylvania. In 1982, Abu-Jamal was sentenced to die for allegedly killing Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner. He has always maintained his innocence. Then, last year, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals set aside Abu-Jamal’s death sentence after finding jurors were given confusing instructions that encouraged them to choose death rather than a life sentence.

A B.C. teen who aspires to be a journalist says his rights were violated when he was set upon by security guards and then arrested by police after photographing an incident at Metrotown shopping mall in Burnaby, B.C.

Two members of the anti-Kremlin punk band Pussy Riot have been sent to remote prison camps to serve their sentences, the group has said.

Maria Alyokhina, 24, will serve the rest of her two-year term at a women's prison camp in Perm, a Siberian region notorious for hosting some of the Soviet Union's harshest camps. Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 22, has been sent to Mordovia, a region that also hosts a high number of prisons.

She is extremely traumatized and experienced a lot of very, very bad things, but she is alive. The state of her mental health is also very bad.
She asks that people do not jump to wild conclusions about her release because they do not apply.

A jury found Ed "NJWeedman" Forchion not guilty Thursday in the Rastafarian activist's marijuana distribution case.

The decision came after Forchion was nearly held in contempt of court in the morning as he delivered his closing argument.

Forchion, formerly of Pemberton Township, tried to introduce his jury nullification argument into the closing, but was quickly stopped by Superior Court Judge Charles Delehey, who had barred any discussion of it.

One of the most under reported stories of the police state violence is the story of Robert Bayliss from Viola. Back in 2008, he had his property stolen and house burned to the ground by local so called "Law Enforcement" over a property tax dispute. William Greg from http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/ did an excellent job uncovering the pieces to this story. Read Mr. Greg's article here. Below is a 30 min video of different radio talk shows discussing what happened.

A third person is now in jail for remaining silent in front of a grand jury. This is stemming from the same incident in Portland in which authorities raided a house looking for black clothing and "anarchist" literature. Though the 3 have not been charged with crimes themselves they are now all in prison for not testifying.

Gandhi self-described as a philosophical anarchist, and his ultimate vision of India had no government as we’d understand the term. He once said “the ideally nonviolent state would be an ordered anarchy.” Gandhi believed that a society was possible where nothing was done without consent

The president said the traditional war on drugs had failed over the past half century, and that the United States' inability to deal with its drug consumption problem left Central America with no option but to promote legalizing drugs in some way.

After being sentenced to two years in prison for “hooliganism motivated by religious hatred,” members of Russian feminist punk rock outfit Pussy Riot could very well be on the verge of being released, thanks to the country’s Prime Minister, Dmitry Medvedev.

I'm sending you a story about Rick Stewart, a political activist and retired grandfather who drove all the way from Cedar Rapids, Iowa to Washington, DC to convince the Commission on Presidential Debates to open up communications with the public about 3rd party candidates. Please take a look at the story when you get a chance. Mr. Stewart is in DC now and would welcome the chance to talk about his story. His contact information is below.

Antonio Buehler arrested for filming police in downtown Austin,TX. Antonio Buehler was booked into the Travis County Jail Sunday morning for interfering with police. Now, APD is speaking out about the incident and is considering a policy change because of it.